Rolled up inside the hollowed-out metal was a piece of canvas.
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Now you have a hollowed-out party which is about retaining power.
From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

"Like climbing in a damp and hollowed-out tree," he said and winked.
From Wordnik.com. [Two Lives] Reference

The Mario Bros. theme song -- played on the hollowed-out skulls of owls!.
From Wordnik.com. [Secrets of the 7 Basic Blog Posts] Reference

Or skip the bread and tote chicken or egg salad in a hollowed-out tomato.
From Wordnik.com. [Save your lunch money—brown bag it] Reference

Michelle's voice is resonant, as if bouncing in a hollowed-out container.
From Wordnik.com. [Stars] Reference

Owners of the luggage say they bought the hollowed-out shells at a novelty shop.
From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 17, 2007] Reference

What is more fitting than having a hollow president to head a hollowed-out state?.
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A cushion or sleeping pad that has hollowed-out areas around the bony parts will help.
From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 14] Reference

Riker slid cautiously into a hollowed-out seat and breathed a deep sigh of contentment.
From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Went Underground]

There is a hollowed-out hull left of the strength that was once admired in John McCain.
From Wordnik.com. [House Dem Staffer: Liberals Are Worried That Leadership Will Cave On Iraq] Reference

Do you like to play "high-powered daddy and hollowed-out, miserable, stay-at-home mommy?".
From Wordnik.com. [It's a Mad, Mad World - for Barbie!] Reference

The age-old practice of carrying home embers in a hollowed-out turnip still burns strong.
From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth C. Davis: Halloween: A Hidden History] Reference

For example, I had never seen a watering trough made of the hollowed-out trunk of a poplar tree.
From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Harriette Arnow, April, 1976. Interview G-0006. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Ranec was putting the grain in a mortar made from a hollowed-out mammoth foot bone extended by a section of leg bone.
From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]

The sound of wooden drums was followed by the thudding of spear butts, and then the staccato of the long, hollowed-out tube.
From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]

They've been out of office for three months and already they're collapsing in on themselves like a hollowed-out wedding cake.
From Wordnik.com. [Douglas MacKinnon: Why is the GOP Not Blacker? Duh.] Reference

They are hollowed-out conch shells into this round shape, and it's believed that they were most likely used as a medium of exchange.
From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Making Money - January 3, 2000] Reference

On the list he was stunned to see "one hollowed-out hand grenade, ball-shaped" and "one hollowed-out hand grenade, pinecone-shaped.".
From Wordnik.com. [American Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jewell] Reference

Morgan turned the book around so Cass could see the illustration of an elaborately detailed five-pointed star with a hollowed-out center.
From Wordnik.com. [Angels and Outlaws]